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zarzavatyesterday at 4:08 PM3 repliesview on HN

I swear that AI could independently develop a cure for cancer and people would still say that it's not actually intelligent, just matrix multiplications giving a statistically probable answer!

LLMs are at least designed to be intelligent. Our monkey brains have much less reason to be intelligent, since we only evolved to survive nature, not to understand it.

We are at this moment extremely deep into what most people would have been considered to be actual artificial intelligence a mere 15 years ago. We're not quite at human levels of intelligence, but it's close.


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qserayesterday at 4:37 PM

>AI could independently develop a cure for cancer

All the answers for all your questions is contained in randomness. If you have a random sentence generator, there is a chance that it will output the answer to this question every time it is invoked.

But that does not actually make it intelligent, does it?

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wang_liyesterday at 4:39 PM

Last week I put "was val kilmer in heat" into the search box on my browser. The AI answer came back with "No, Val Kilmer was not in heat. Val Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis in the movie Heat but the film did not indicate that he was pregnant or in heat. His performance was nuanced and skilled and represents a high point of the film." I was not curious about whether he was pregnant.

We are not only not close to human level of intelligence, we are not even at dog, cat, or mouse levels of intelligence. We are not actually at any level of intelligence. Devices that produce text, images, or code do not demonstrate intelligence any more than a printer producing pages of beautiful art demonstrate intelligence.

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worldsavioryesterday at 4:20 PM

That's wrong. Humans were evolved to have big brains so they can better understand the env and use it to their advantage.

I still see AI making stupid silly mistakes. I rather think and not waste time on something that only remembers data, and doesn't even understand it.

Reasoning in AI is only about finding contradictions between his "thoughts", not actually understand it.

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